A concert of Baroque favorites by the Colorado Symphony Orchestra will be broadcast statewide on Colorado Public Radio, Friday at 7 p.m., live from Boettcher Concert Hall.

Violinist Jennifer Koh and conductor Matthew Halls join the orchestra for a program that includes Bach’s Suite from the Easter Oratorio and Orchestral Suite No. 4 in D major, and Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons.”

Legendary Broadway composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim turned 80 in March and the string of Broadway tributes includes one to which we’re all invited: a sweet bash airing on PBS’s Great Performances on Wednesday, Nov. 24 at 9 p.m. on PBS (locally KRMA-Channel 6).

“”Sondheim! The Birthday Concert” with the New York Philharmonic, taped at Lincoln Center, is hosted by David Hyde Pierce, who even sings a bit alongside his familiar sardonic humor. It’s a glittering two hours that will make you dig out those old CDs –and perhaps buy the composer’s new book, Finishing the Hat.

But first, settle in for this great night of TV. Highlights include favorites from “Sweeney Todd,” “Into the Woods” and “Sunday in the Park with George.”

The amazing Patti LuPone, Bernadette Peters, Marin Mazzie, Donna Murphy, Audra McDonald and, never least, Elaine Stritch together cap the night with a succession of leading lady show stoppers. When Mazzie sings “Losing My Mind,” and when LuPone belts “The Ladies Who Lunch,” and finally, when Stritch proclaims “I’m Still Here,” it’s a thrill. Fans will want to have the DVR running.

Rupert Goold’s production of “Macbeth,” starring Sir Patrick Stewart in his Tony-nominated performance, comes to television next month. The updated version of the Scottish play looks at power and war in the modern world.

Airing on PBS’ “Great Performances” on Wednesday, Oct. 6, the production was filmmed for TV at the end of 2009 at Welbeck Abbey in the U.K., after its run on Broadway. Kate Fleetwood plays Lady Macbeth.

PBS introduced a beta version of its new arts website today, covering architecture, dance, film, theater, music, visual arts and more. PBS President Paula Kerger said the expanded arts content is as “part of broader plan to make more arts and cultural offerings accessible to millions of Americans.”

The site’s initial offerings include four concurrent virtual exhibitions. Among them: “Ruin and Revival,” works from the “Storm Cycle” collection by New Orleans-based artist Thomas Mann.

Full episodes and extra footage from some of PBS’ arts series will end up on the site. For many Americans, the network suggests, online connections to arts may be as close as they get to live performances.

PBS notes the site’s launch “coincides with the recently released National Endowment for the Arts report, Audience 2.0: How Technology Influences Arts Participation, which indicates that people who engage with the arts on-air or online are three times more likely to attend a “live” event than non-media participants.”

Thursday morning, while documentary director Daniel Junge and editor Davis Coombe were cutting a new project, they learned that “They Killed Sister Dorothy” received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Investigative Journalism-Long Form.

Junge’s film relates the story of Dorothy Stang, a Sisters of Notre Dame nun killed in the Amazon for her human rights and land-reform work. It was shown on HBO in 2009.

Junge wasn’t the only local filmmaker with Colorado ties fielding good news from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Director Debra Anderson sent word researchers Mitchell Marti and Matt Vest were nominated for their work on her documentary “Split Estate.”

Michael Feinstein's American Songbook, a three-part documentary, is coming to PBS this fall.

A three-part series coming to PBS in October will document Michael Feinstein’s music preservation efforts. Performing the Gershwins, Rogers and Hart, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Frank Sinatra, Rosemary Clooney, Nat King Cole, Ethel Waters, Margaret Whiting and more, Feinstein traces the history of American standards and rarities.

Archival audio and film footage helps tell the story, according to producer-director Amber Edwards, detailing “the social and historical forces behind the music, which helped to shape the style, attitude and self-image of America for more than a century.” It’s filled with live performances, too.

Circle Oct. 6, 13 and 20 for these hour-long adventures of a noted music preservationist and performer.

Green Day will perform, “Glee’s” Lea Michele and Matthew Morrison will sing and Sean Hayes (“Promises, Promises”) will host when the 64th annual Tony Awards beams from Radio City Music Hall on Sunday (7-10 p.m. on KCNC Channel 4). CBS released the lineup today.

Expect scenes from the following nominated plays: Denzel Washington and Viola Davis from “Fences,” Justin Bartha, Anthony LaPaglia and Tony Shalhoub from “Lend Me a Tenor,” Jan Maxwell and Rosemary Harris of “The Royal Family,” Liev Schreiber and Scarlett Johansson from “A View from the Bridge,” Laura Benanti and Michael Cerveris from “In the Next Room,” Patrick Breen and Patrick Heusinger of “Next Fall,” Laura Linney and Brian d’Arcy James from “Time Stands Still” and Alfred Molina and Eddie Redmayne from “Red.”

Following in Leonard Bernstein’s footsteps, Michael Tilson Thomas will use television to bring music appreciation to a new generation, on June 18 on HBO’s “MasterClass.”

It’s all about mentorship, giving emerging young artists the chance to meet and work with the best in their fields. The kids are from YoungArts, the core program of the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts.

Cable’s Ovation network (channel 182 locally on Comcast) calls itself “the only multi-platform network devoted to art and contemporary culture.” Both online and on cable TV and satellite, Ovation covers art from popular contemporary forms to avant garde, reaching some 40 million homes.

On June 20, the original 1999 British hit “Queer as Folk” (not the Showtime version) has its U.S. premiere on Ovation to kick off the “Art Out Loud” programming event.

“Art Out Loud” will also include the basic cable premiere of “Follow My Voice: With the Music of Hedwig” on June 27. John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask, the creators of the cult stage musical and film “Hedwig and the Angry Inch,” are joined by more than 75 performers to create a benefit album for the nation’s first high-school for gay kids. Among the artists participating: Yoko Ono, Rufus Wainwright, Cyndi Lauper, Jonathan Richman, Sleater-Kinney and They Might Be Giants.

“Brokeback Mountain,” “Tipping the Velvet” and “Torch Song Trilogy” are also part of the “Art Out Loud” lineup, which Ovation says, “takes a look at the influence of LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual and Transgender) culture on film, literature, performance art and television.”